Rather than fostering tolerance and promoting acceptance, it seems that cultural relativism provides legitimate support for the deprivation of human rights across the world. As Neil Levy argues 'moral relativism leaves us unable to make necessary criticisms of human rights abuses, of the systematic oppression of women, indeed, of the very destruction wreaked by the colonial powers on their colonies. ...

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Other issues that prompt protests are animal rights, the distribution of wealth (inequality), and the loss of culture and tradition. ... The impact of free trade and globalization on labor rights has been overlooked. Countries that consistently violate international labor conventions disadvantage countries that enforce labor rights. ... What are the rights of labor in a globalized economy when labor cannot move as easily as capital? ... Cosmopolitans believe that "political boundaries have no particular significance," that "moral claims," or the rights of all human beings, are universally shar...

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A revolution is a justified mean of change as motivates and inspires people to press for their rights that will benefit the country and future generations as a whole. ... No questions of constitutionality or the natural rights of his subject need trouble him. ... Habitants, fences, domesticated animals, men, women, and children and the soil that bore them all won out." ... Therefore, a Continental Congress was set to defence their rights and liberties. ... "All men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these life, LIBERTY, a...

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" As well they also compared them to animals. ... The Declaration of Independence was basically an outline for what was going to be acceptable and what was not, and they listed the rights that each man would have. ... Because during that time slaves were not considered as a person, they were strictly property therefore they were not entitled to any rights. ... Whenever America gained its independence and wrote the Declaration of Independence they did not include the slaves to the rights and freedom that every man received....

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As a result, the US Supreme Court and the Chief Judge ruled in favor of the infamous Dred Scott Case that as far as they were concerned, blacks were only 3/5's human and therefore had no rights that the white man was bound to respect. ... When the European used the word "nigga" towards blacks, it was used as a mental whip to force blacks into the image they had created blacks: mentally dead and equal only to the animals of the plantation. ... Like, Bunny Plaskett who remembers the pain of life in the United States before the civil rights. ... The Civil Rights Era in America was about B...

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Black Beauty has been removed from shelves because it depicts cruelty to animals. ... The first amendment in the Bill of Rights states; "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press or the right of the people to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievance". ... According to the American Bar Association, "Students in public school have the right to free speech and expression, so long as the exercise of those rights would not materially and substan...

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They were portrayed as savages that came from the wilderness, and considered some kind of animal. ... For many years, the black Americans struggled to be a part of the society with the same rights as whites and also some organizations as the Ku Kux Klan attempted to stop their efforts. ... It was obvious that although slavery was abolished, the blacks did not have the same rights as the whites. ...

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Again, the issue of whether the child is fully human with all the same rights is at issue. ... Under the flag of defending reproductive rights, certain gay rights advocates are pushing the idea of cloning as a means of preserving homosexuality in a general population which might otherwise decide to eliminate it. ...

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The 1950's was also the start to may Civil Rights and key events happened during this time, Brown vs. ... In Michael Pollan's "The Cooking Animal" he says, "Cooking gave us not just the meal but also the occasion: the practice of eating together at an appointed time and place" (105). ...

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